A response to "Science classes are for science only" By Eric Lane - Special to the Express-News. Web Posted: 01/04/2009 5:22 CSTIn the upcoming months, the Texas State Board of Education will make a decision on whether public school science classes will teach scientific concepts or religious non-scientific beliefs known as intelligent design/creationism.The debate of ID and Evolution speculation has nothing to do with religion and science. Intelligent design theory does not require a religious premise. As a Christian I caution fellow believers to critically read intelligent design literature. With this stated, I respect ID's call for academic freedom in schools.
Some ID scientists have made claims that are near blasphemous to Jews, Muslims and Christians. In newspaper interviews and other literature, Some ID scientists have suggested that the intelligent designer or designers may no longer exist. Jesus endorsed the special immediate creation of Adam and Eve when he stated.
"Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? Mat 19:5-6
Conservative Christianity alludes to the doctrine of marriage between a woman and a man. This doctrine has its roots in the special creation of Adam and Eve. Christians who deny evolution base this belief not on disgust, but the Bible. In contrast, most ID scientists do not deny evolutionary assumptions that human's came from ape-like hominoids.
I think the Texas Department of Education needs to allow school districts freedom to discuss controversy. I think the phrase teach the controversy should be renamed “Teach About The Controversy.” Youth should be allowed to access to all information regarding controversial issues in society. Science teachers should not be threatened to speak about ID or creationism. In reality, over 90 percent of any science class in public schools should be devoted to empirical science. As far as other classes such as social science and history is concerned, freedom should be allowed and encouraged to teach about the controversy.
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the problem is, of course, that there isn't a controversy. At least not among scientists. If the argument is that some people think the earth is about 6,000 years old and that evolution is not a proven fact, then you have to also allow the "controversy" about astrology into astronomy lectures, the "controversy" about whether the Holocaust really happened into history class, etc.
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